Resources

Trends and geographical variation in the incidence and mortality of head and neck cancer and associated risk factors 

This document supports local authorities (LAs) to commission oral health improvement programmes for children and young people aged up to 19 years. It enables LAs to review and evaluate existing oral health improvement programmes and consider future commissioning intentions and provides an evidence-informed approach with examples of good practice.

The Board was officially launched on the 26^th September 2016 with a communications event and a news launch on gov.uk which introduced the COHIPB Action plan infographic which details the 5 high level objectives of the board; how they will be delivered and what success looks like.

A rapid review of the evidence of cost effectiveness of interventions to improve the oral health of 0-5-year olds. This document provides updated economic evidence on oral health prevention measures since the review published by NICE in 2014. It includes supervised tooth brushing, fluoride varnish, water fluoridation, provision of toothbrushes and paste, and interventions provided in home visits by health workers. This document is supplemented with an infographic which summarises the return on investment of the 5 interventions using modelling data. 

This resource aims to support commissioners and providers of supervised tooth brushing programmes in schools and early years settings in England, to gain assurance that they are commissioning and delivering high quality programmes

This document outlines public health interventions that can improve the health of the population and reduce health and care service demand. It includes oral health interventions In Section 12: Maternity and early years.

This document is intended as a framework outlining priorities for dentistry, including oral health improvement, in Wales.

Evidence and guidance to help healthcare professionals improve child oral health.

This resource outlines how health professionals can help prevent tooth decay in children under 5 as part of ensuring every child has the best start in life.

Cymru Well Wales’s First 1000 days collaboration focuses on ensuring that all activity being delivered to improve health in early life is harnessed in a coherent system, with everybody working in partnership to intervene earlier.

This document provides information to health professionals when commissioning of local infant feeding services.

This document provides information to health care professionals and the dental team about incorporating smoking cessation into their routine practice.

This webpage provides details of Scotland’s national programme designed to improve the oral health of children and reduce inequalities both in dental health and access to dental services.

This programme supports the collection, analysis and dissemination of reliable and robust information on the oral health needs of local populations

This information can be supplemented with the document ‘Commissioning High Quality Information to Support Oral Health Improvement; A toolkit about dental epidemiology for local authorities, commissioners and partners.’

This webpage provides information for a wide range of professionals, including health visitors and other early years services about the national oral health improvement programme for children in Wales

This webpage provides information and resources to health care professional from outside of the dental team.